Cash-carrier apparatus.



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. .PATENTED AUG. 8, 1905. J. H. D. CHAMBERLAIN & D. E. CHISM.

CASH CARRIER APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED MAR 21 1904 No. 796,808. I PATENTED AUG. 8, 1905. J. H. D. CHAMBERLAIN & D, B. GHISM.

CASH CARRIER APPARATUS.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES H. D. CHAMBERLAIN, OF'SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, AND DAVID E. CHISM, OF STAFFORD SPRINGS, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNORS TO INDEPENDENT STORE SERVICE- COMPANY, OF SPRINGFIELD,

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CASH-CARRIER APPARATUS- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 8, 1905.

To all whom 212; may concern:

Be it known that we, J AMESH. D. CHAMBER- LAIN, a resident of Springfield, inthe county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, and DAVID E. CHIsM, a resident of Stafiord Springs, in the county of Tolland and Stateof Connecticut, citizens of the United States of America,

engaged with the cord, and the cash-carrier apparatus of the general character in conjunction with which this invention is available is illustrated and described in the Letters Patent of the United States issued to Chamberlain, Chism, and Cooper, November 5, 1901, No. 685,740.

The present improvements in part pertain to arrangements for vertical corners of the cash-carrier system or apparatus, in which there are propulsion-coI'd-guiding Wheels and relatively to whichthe adjoining right-angularly-arranged and tangential trackways are preferably tubular and constructed with longitudinal slotways for the free passage of the neck between the cash-box body and its head, so that the cash-box may round the corner with certainty in a manner to establish but a minimum of friction between it and the guiding and propelling parts therefor, and all with regard to simplicity and cheapness of construetion and to the provision of a form of vertical corner appliance which may be manufactured in large numbers, kept instock, and found available for duplicated employment in a large number of places in the sys tem at which the trackways necessarily have right-angular changes in their courses.

The present improvements also in part pertain to the terminal portion of the apparatus or system, sometimes referred to as the cashiers station or home station, constructed with reference to a novel and advantageous manner of delivery from the one trackway .and reception into the other trackway of the cash-box and an arrangement of the different courses, oncoming and outgoing, of the propulsion-cable relatively to guide-wheels therefor, which peculiarly deflect the portions of the cable adjacent its bight or return bend, so as not to obstruct or interfere with or be interfered with by the cash-box coming to the home station fordelivery thereat or returned into the outgoing portion of the carrier for transmission back to the station whence it came.

The invention consists in combinations and arrangements of 4 parts, as hereinafter described and covered in and by the appended claims.

The improvements are exemplified in the accompanying drawings as carried out structurally in an approved manner and as protracted operation thereof has demonstrated to be reliably operative, it being at this time stated, however, that there may be various departures and changes made in the constructions which would carry out substantially the same idea of means andwhich would not be a departure from the hereinafter claimed in vention.

In the drawings, Figure 1 isa side elevation of the parts and appliances comprised in what is termed a lower vertical or plumb corner of a cash-carrier system, the arrangements for the guidance of the propulsion-cord and cash-box, which are to run horizontally and upwardly, beingrepresented as in front of the corresponding part for the guidance of the propulsion-cord and cash-box which are to run reversely that is, downwardly and then horizontally. Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional elevation ofthe tubular trackways and transversely-offset cash-box guides as taken on the line 2 2, Fig. 1, looking to the leftward, the corner inclosed cord-guidance wheels understood as being beyond the plane of section not being shown. Fig. 3 is a partial sectional view transversely across a portion of the apparatus at the location of the determining section-line 3 3 on Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a plan view of the terminal or home-station portion of the cash-carrier apparatus. Fig. 5 is a side elevation ofthe same; and Fig. 6 is an end elevation as seen beyond the section-line 6 6, Fig. 4, the tubular trackways being represented in cross-section.

In the drawings, and referring to Sheet 1 thereof, and more especially the frontward portion, illustrating the means for the propulsion and guidance of the cash-box horizontally to and a quarter-way around the corner guide-wheel and then verticallyupward-B indicates the corner-wheel, mounted on the bracket or support (I understood as elevated, said wheel being rotatable in a vertical plane, and A represents a vertically-arranged tubular trackway-section tangential to the lefthand upper side of the wheel-rim, and A represents a tubular traclavay-section arranged in a horizontal line which is tangential to the under edge of the rim of the wheel, the ver tical trackway A having a longitudinal slotway 6, which opens sidewise through the tube in a plane transverse and right-angular to the plane of rotation of the corner-wheel B, while the slotway in the horizontal track-tube A is formed through its bottom and is in a plane coincident with the plane of rotation of the corner-wheel B. 0 represents the propulsion-cord, understood as having a running motion in the direction of the arrows m, and a contact a quarter-way around in the grooved rim of the corner-wheel.

As particularly shown in the drawings, Fig. 1, in line with the trackway portion A, but removed therefrom and next to the cornerwheel, is a short section of tubular trackway A', the longitudinal slotway e therein sidewise opening on a plane right-angular to the plane of rotation of the corner-wheel, and intermediate between the horizontal trackway portions A and A and in the common horizontal line tangential to the under portion of the wheel-rim is a trackway tube-section A", a longitudinal slotway a therein being in and through what is normally its under side and normally continuous with the downwardlyopening slotway c in the track-tube section A. This intermediate tubular traclovay-section A has the end portions thereof [itted fonpartial rotary movement in the embracing or partially circular bracket-lugs /t, and a spring 1; is applied to react againstan abutn'lent-stud t projected from the tube to keep the track-tube section A, rocked around and for the maintenance of its slotway at its under side and in registry with the slotway (a of track-tube A. A. stop-pin a, adapted to coact with any suitable abutment, which may be a part of one of the braeket-yoltes, prevents an undue rotational movement of the track-tube--that is, it limits it "from being rocked more or much more than a quarter of a turn about its own axis-and one end portion of the spring 25, which is here represented as a flat spring, is aflixed to and supported by one of the bracketyokes if. Continuous with the outer side portion of the vertical and tangential trachtube A is a metallic strip E, the same extending parallel with, concentrically outside 01, and slightly separated from the left-hand and under side of the cornerwheel B, the same connecting with the horizontal tangential trackway-section A next below its sidewise opening slotway 0. This curved strip E is cross-sectionally of trough shape with its concavity inward and together with the adjacent curved wheel-rim, leaving space for occupancy and passage therebetween of the cylindrical head?) of the cash-box, which head is joined to the body of the box by the neck a, which latter may protrude through the quadrantal slotway ;1 which is between the wheel-rim and the proximate edge of said arc-shaped strip E. E represents aguide or runner for the body of the cash-box, the same serving to deflect the box coming through the trackwaysection A, in a vertical plane toward the corner-wheel and into the rotatable trackwaysection A, from such vertical plane into a horizontal position, and one in which the body extends transversely in a line at right angles to the plane of rotation of the corner-wheel, the said box-guiding or runner strip extending from aposition under the rotatable trackscction along, around, concentrically outside of, and transversely located from the wheelrim, and upwardly toward the vertical tubular track-section A.

As represented in Fig. 2, the right-hand end portion of the guide-strip E, which is facewise in a vertical plane, has its location at a slight distance back of the vertical longitudinal median plane of the adjoined trackway-seetions A and A", and a little to the leftward and under an intermediate part of the rotatable track-tube A such guide-strip E has a deflection or quarter-twist, as represented at 30, and is transversely distended so that its horizontal facewise portion which runs along parallel with the tubular tracksection A and for a quarter-bend around the corner-wheel is somewhat frontward from the plane of the corner-wheel.

The cash-box, having its head engaged with and to be carried along by the propulsioncord C, in coming, while occupying a vertical position, into the tube-section A" is, by the detlection of the guide and runner strip E, swung a quarter-way around and into a horizontal position, so as to further continue through the sidewise opening slotway to make a quarter-turn around the wheel, and while still horizontally extended to enter the sidewise opening slotway in the vertical tracksection A, and after the box has passed to the leftward beyond the trackway-tube A, said tube which by the box making the quarter-turn has also been rotated a quarter-Way around is restored to its original position with its slotway downward.

The track-tube section A may be very much shorter than represented in Fig. 1, and, in fact, it may be omitted altogether, the track-tube section A in such case having its ,having passed beyond the right-hand end of left-hand end adjacent the point of tangency of the horizontal trackway-line to the under peripheral portion of the corner-wheel.

In conjunction with the rearwardly-loizated corner-wheel B is the vertical tangential trackway-section Afihaving the sid ewise opening slotway e and the horizontal tangential tubular trackway-section A having the longitudinal slotway e" therein in the portion adjacent the corner-wheel B not only through its bottom portion, but a part Waysay a quarter of the circumference-around the side, and a concurrent runner or guide strip E the transverse aspect and relative arrangement of which is represented at the lower portion of Fig. 2, has a quarter-tu rn around and concentrically of and laterally removed from the plane of rotation of the corner-wheel.

The cash-box, coming down through the vertical tube section A horizontally and transversely distended relatively to the plane of rotation of the cornerwheel B, after rounding such corner-wheel and coming into the horizontal track-tube section A then the runner-guide E, is left free to swing by its own gravity into the vertical disposition represented by the full lines at the lower portion of Fig. 2, it coming to this position from the horizontal position relatively shown by the adjacent dotted lines in said figure, and while the cash-box head is capable of the range of rotational movement within the trackway-tube, so that it may swing from the one to the other of the said positions, the head is of sufiicient circumferential size to always be maintained in-running engagement throughout the length of the trackway-tube A notwithstanding the aperture 0" therein is of such transverse dimension as to permit freely the changes of position of the box head.

The neck of the cash-box when rounding the wheel has only one side thereof in frictional contact with the stationary guiding part adjacent the wheel-rim, the cash-box head having one side thereof next to the curved rim, being by the latter assisted in itstraveling movement.

The arrangements, substantially as described in connection with Figsl, 2, and 3 of-the drawings, for a lower vertical corner might be utilized without the exercise of further invention or eontrivance and without change beyond proper designing ,to fit the situation at an upper vertical or plumb corner of the cashcarrier apparatus.

In lieu of having the trackway-section A formed rotational and provided with a narrow slotway for the cash-box neck such section might be immovably supported and provided with the widened slotway similar to the one e for the trackway-section A the cam-like runner-strip E having the deflecting or caml like portion 30 exerting the lifting and sidewise swinging movement to the cash-box'as it approaches'the corner-wheel B.

Referring to the terminal portion of the cash-carrier apparatus, in which both of the trackways, oncoming and return, are understood as being at the location of the cashier or the home station, the parallel horizontal trackways are open at their ends 35 and have somewhat back from their ends apertures 36, the widths of which are less than the diameter of the cash-box head, and adjacent these apertures .are sheaves or guide-wheels M, which are journaled for rotation on axes oblique to the plumb lines of the trackways, or lines perpendicular to the trackway-axes, a peripheral portion of each wheel M at its one side having a location about in a perpendicular plane coincident with the trackway, while its opposite peripheral portion is considerably oifset owing to the obliquity of the wheel from the trackway-line, and the propulsion-cords C, emerging from the tracktubes through said apertures 36, round the adjoining wheels M and have the portion thereof constituting the bight guided eXternally of the track-tubes and in engagement around a sheave or wheel N, which, if desired, may be a drive-wheel.

Assuming that the track-tube at the upper part of the plan view, Fig. 4, is the one along which the cash-box is conveyed toward the home station, it will be understood that in arriving at the location of the adjoining oblique wheel M, owing to the divergent course which the cord takes in departing from within the track-tube, the box will have its head disengaged from such cord and by the acquired momentum will be slid to the rightward, more or less, stopping, perhaps, within the right-hand end of the tube, where it may be slid out by hand, or, if the tube is comparatively short and no checking means provided, the cash-box may be shot out from the tube onto the desk or into-a receiver therefor. Then the head of the box to be returned to its proper station will be slid in at the end of the other trackway-section by hand until it has acquired engagement by its head with the course of the cord, which is understood to be running in the reverse (leftward) direction for the return of the box.

Different manners of oblique arrangements of the cord-guiding wheels M may be observed for the stated results, and in the pair of wheels here illustrated the upper one in the plan is represented journaled on an axis coincident with the plane perpendicular to the length of the trackway, but inclined from the horizontal line at right angles to the trackway, while the other wheel adjoining the other track has its axis on a horizontal line; but such line is oblique to the length of the trackway, and limitation is not to be made as to any particu- &

lar'arrangement of the cord-guiding sheaves so long as they are arranged in a manner to cause the courses of the propulsion-cord to take a divergent course out from the trackway-tube and in continuation have dispositions so far laterally removed from the sides of the tubes as to constitute no impediment to the passage of the body of the box. This avoidance of obstruction of the passages of the box in either direction and in the lines of the track-tubes will be perhaps best appreciated on reference to Fig. 6, wherein it will be seen that the portions 38 of the propulsioncord leading toward the bight are transversely offset from the axes of the tubes.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a cash carrier apparatus, a wheel mounted for rotation in a vertical plane, trackways in lines angular to each other and tangential to the wheel-rim, a box-guiding strip concentrically outside of, and slightly separated from, the wheel-rim, between the wheelapproached portions of the trackways, the cord, and a cash-box having a head and neck, and one of said track-sections constructed to permit the cash-box to swing relatively thereto from one plane to another angularly thereto whereby the box may have a horizontal and laterally-extending disposition in passing around the corner, and a vertical disposition in its passage through the one of said trackways.

2. In a cash carrier apparatus, a wheel mounted for rotation in a vertical plane, trackways in lines angular to each other and tangential to the wheel-rim, a box-guiding strip independent of the trackways and arranged concentrically outside of, and slightly separated from, the wheel-rim, between the wheelapproached portions of the trackways, the cord, and a cash-box having a head and neck, and one of said track-sections constructed to permit the cash-box to swing relatively thereto from one plane to another angularly thereto whereby the box may have a horizontal and laterally-extending disposition in passing around the corner, and a vertical disposition in its passage through the one of said trackways, and a guide-strip laterally offset from the said concentrically-arrranged box-guiding strip with which the cash-box body engages in its travel toward and around the corner.

3. In a cash-carrier apparatus, a wheel rotatable in a vertical plane, trackways tangential to different portions of the wheel-rim, a cord traveling along said trackways and around the wheel and adapted to have acashcarrier connected thereto, means to permit a carrier supported by the cord to swing relative to the tracks from one plane to another angular thereto whereby the carrier may have a horizontal and laterally-extending position in rounding the wheel and a vertical position in following one of the trackways, and means independent of the trackways for supporting and guiding the carrier around the wheel.

4. In a cash-carrier apparatus, the wheel rotatable, a vertical track-tube tangential to one portion of the wheel-rim, having a longitudinal slot opening through the tube-wall right angular to the plane of rotation of the wheel, a track-tube horizontally ranging and in a line tangential to another portion of the wheel-rim having a longitudinally-extending aperture through the under side of thehorizontal tracktube, a curved strip slightly separated from the wheel-rim and between the vertical and horizontal track-tubes, and a guide-strip offset from the plane of the wheel and said curved strip, the propulsion-cord, and the cash-box having a cord-engaging extremity and adapted to be swung from one plane into another in passing around the wheel at the corner.

5. In a corner appliance of a cash-carrier apparatus, the wheel, a vertical, and a horizontal tubular-trackway section arranged tangential to the wheel-rim, each having a longitudinal slotway, a single curved box-guiding strip independent of the trackways and arranged between said trackway-sections and located near but slightly separated from the wheel-rim, the propulsion-cord, the cash-box having a cordengaging head having a running engagement within the tubular trackways, and a neck, and one of said trackway-sections adapted to permit the cash-box to be swung from one to another plane,without disengagement of the boxhead from the tube-wall while passing therealong.

6. In a corner appliance of a cash-carrier apparatus, the wheel, avertical, and a horizontal tubular-trackway section arranged tangential to the wheel-rim, each having a longitudinal slotway, a single curved strip between said trackway-sections located near, but slightly separated from, the wheel-rim,,the propulsioncord and the cash-box having a cord-engaging head, having a running engagement within the tubular trackways, and a neck, one of said trackway-sections adapted to permit the cashbox to be swung from one to another plane, without disengagement of the box-head from the tube-wall while passing therealong, and a curved guide-strip having a location offset from the trackways and said curved strip with which the cash-box coacts in its travel adjacent and around the corner.

7. In a corner appliance of a cash-carrier apparatus, a vertically-rotatable wheel tubulartrackway sections arranged at an angle to each other tangential to the wheel-rim, each having a longitudinal slotway, a single curved strip between the wheel-approaching portions of said trackway-sections, located near, but slightly separated from, the wheel-rim, and one of said tangentially-arranged trackwaysections adapted to permit the cash-box to be swung from one to another plane while passing therealong, and a guide-strip having a location offset from the trackways and said curved strip with which the cash-box coacts in its travel adjacent and around the corner.

8. In a cash-carrier apparatus, the wheel, a strip arc-formed as to its length and having a location slightly separated from a quadrantal portion of the wheel-rim, a track-section, having a longitudinal slotway, supported in a line tangential to the wheel-rim for a rotational movement, the cord, the cash-box having a head and neck, and a guide offset from, and ranging along, the rotatable track-section, and operative to swing the box traveling along such section from one plane into another.

9. In a cash-carrier apparatus, a verticallydispose'd wheel, a tubular trackway tangential to an upper sidewise portion of the wheel-rim having a sidewise-opening slot in a plane angular to the plane of rotation of the rim, a single strip arc-shaped as to its lengthcontinuous with the said tubular trackway and extending around parallel with and slightly separated from a side and under portion of.

propulsion-cord, the cash-box having a head I and neck, and a guide for the box formed and arranged to swing the box coming into the rotatable trackway-section from a vertical to a horizontal plane.

1O. In a cash-carrier apparatus, the wheel, a strip arc-shaped as to its length and having a location slightly separated from a quadrantal portion of the wheel-rim, a track-section having a longitudinal slotway supported tangential to the wheel-rim, for a rotational movement, means for limiting the rotational movement of the track-section, the cord, the cash-box having a head and neck, and a guide offset from, and ranging along, the rotatable track-section, and operative to swing the box traveling along such section from one plane into another.

11. In. a cash-carrier apparatus, the wheel, a strip arc-formed as to its length and having a location slightly separated from a quadrantal portion of the wheel-rim, a track-section having a longitudinal slotway supported tangential to the wheel-rim, for a rotational movement, the cord, the cash-box having a head and neck, and a guide olfset from, and ranging along, the rotatable track-section, and operative to swing the box traveling along such section from one plane into another, and through the medium of the box to rotate the track-section, and means for rotationally re turning the track-section back to its normal position after the passage, along such section of the box.

12. In a cash-carrier apparatus, the wheel, a strip arc-formed as to its length and having a location slightly separated from a quadrantal portion of the wheel-rim, a tubular-track section having a longitudinal slotway, supported in a line tangential to the wheel-rim, for a rotational movement, and having a stoppin, an abutment with which the pin coacts, a spring arranged to react against the rotational tubular track section, the cord, the cash-box havinga head and neck, and a guide offset from, and ranging along, the rotatable track-section, and operative to swing the box traveling along such section from one plane into another.

13. In a cash-carrier apparatus, the wheel, astrip arc-formed as to its length and having a location slightly separated from a quadran tal portion of the wheel-rim, a tubular-track section having a longitudinal slotway in its under side and normally in a vertical plane, supported in a line tangential to the wheelrim, for a rotational movement about its axis, the cord, the cash-box having a head and neck, and a guide-strip ranging below the rotationally-movable tube and havinga portion thereof in a vertical plane and facewise deflected into a horizontal disposition and continued toward and along a line concentrically outside of the wheel-rim.

14. In a cash-carrier apparatus, the groove.- rimmed wheel, a strip arc-formed as to its length and having a location slightly outwardly and separated from a quadrantal portion of the wheel-rim, and constructed crosssectionally trough-shaped and arranged with its concavity toward the grooved wheel-rim, a track-section having a longitudinal slotway, supported in a line tangential to the wheelrim, for a rotational movement, the cord, the cash-box having a head and neck, and aguide offset from, and ranging along, the rotatable track-section, and operative to swing the box traveling along such section from one plane into another.

'15. In acash-carrier apparatus, a verticallydisposed wheel, a vertical trackway-section, tangential relatively to an upper sidewise portion of the wheel, and havinga sidewise-opening slotway therethrough, a single strip extending from the trackway at one side of its slotway and having a curvature downwardly around parallel with and -slightly separated.

from the wheel-rim, a trackway-section in a horizontal line under, and tangential to, the rim, arranged for a rocking motion, and having a slotway in its normally under side, the propulsion-cord, a cash-box having a cord-engagement head and a neck connecting the box and head, and means adjacent the aforesaid appliances for partially rotating the cashbox in its movement of approach toward the wheel.

16. In a corner construction of a cash-carrier apparatus, for a forwardly and upwardly guided cash-box propulsion-cord, the vertically-disposed wheel, approximately tangential, vertical and horizontal trackway-sections,

having sidewise-opening slotways and joined by asingle arc-shaped continuation located in slight separation from, and substantially parallel with, the wheel-rim, trackway-setztions adjoining the said horizontal trackway-scction having normally its opening downward, and arranged for a rotational movement,and a runner for the cashbox body laterally removed from,and approximately parallel with, the areformed strip and adjoining trackway portion, and formed and arranged to swing the cashbox from a vertical to a horizontal and relatively laterally extending position in approaching and rounding the wheel.

17. In a corner construction of a cash-carrier apparatus, for a forwardly and upw'ardly guided propulsion-cord, and cash-box, a cordguiding wheel rotatably supported in a vertical plane, and an under horizontal and an upleading vertical tubular-trackway section, arranged substantially tangential to the rim of the wheel and connected by a single areshaped strip slightly separated from the adja cent portion of the wheel-rim, and said tangentially-arranged tubular-trackway sections having longitudinal slotways sidewise opening therethrough, a tubular-traclzway section supported for rotational movement and continuous with said under horizontal tubulartrackway section, and having as regards its normal position a downwardly-opening slotway, and a guard-strip having a portion thereof beneath said rotatable traclrway-section and extending and arranged to swing the vertically-disposed oncoming cash-box into a horizontal position, and through the medium of such box rotationally moving said slotted rotatable trackway-section, and the propulsion-cord arranged to run through the tubular-trackway sections and in contact with the wheel-rim.

18. In a corner construction of a cash-carrier apparatus, for a forwardly and upwardly guided cash-box propulsion-cord, the vertically-disposed wheel, approximately tangential vertical and horizontal trackways, having sidewise-opening ways and joined by a single arc-shaped continuation located in slight separation from, and substantially parallel and concentric with the wheel-rim, and in the plane of rotation thereof, a trackway-section adjoining said horizontal traclavay-section and in the horizontal line thereof having a longitudinal opening downwardly, therethrough, and arranged for a rotational movement, and a runner for the cash-box body laterally removed from, and approximately parallel with, the arc-formed and adjoining trackway portions, and with said rotative track-section, and having portions thereof under the latter section both vertically and horizontally arranged with a deflecting portion merging from the one plane to the other substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

19. In a corner construction of a cash-carrier apparatusfor a downward and then horizontally-guided cash-box propulsion-cord, the vertically-disposed wheel, approximately tangential vertical and horizontal trackway-sections, the vertical one having a sidewise-opening slotway right angular to the plane of rotation of the wheel, and the horizontal one having a comparatively side downwardly-leading opening, the arc-shaped strip located in slight separation from, and substantially and concentric with the wheel-rim, and a runner for the cash-box body laterally removed from, and approximately parallel with the arc-formed and adjoining traclzway portions, and formed to support the cash-box downwardly rounding the wheel, in a horizontal position and terminating so that the box, in coming to the tracksection having the widened under opening, may swing from the horizontal to a vertical position.

20. In a cash-carrier apparatus, the combination of a wheel rotatable in a vertical plane, a propulsion-cord in running contact with and having apartial turn around the wheel, acashbox having a cord-engaging extension, a tubular trackway in a line tangential to the wheelrim having an under and sidewise portion thereof recessed to permit the cash-box extension to have continuous running engagement with the track way and to swing from its horizontal to a vertical position, and means laterally arranged relative to the wheel and independent of the trackways for causing the box in rounding the wheel to have a horizontal and transverse position relative thereto.

21. In a cash-carrier apparatus, the combination with a wheel rotatable in a vertical plane, a propulsion-cord in running contact with, and having a quarter-turn around the wheel, a cash-box having a neck and cord-engaging head, a tubular-trackway section arranged in a horizontal line tangential to an under portion of the wheel-rim, and having a longitudinally-extending recess in its under and adjacent sidewise portion, considerably wider than cash-box neck but of less Width than the cash-box head, and means independent of the traclrway-section and disposed adjacent and laterally of the wheel for causing the box in rounding the wheel to have a horizontal disposition relatively thereto.

22. In the terminal portion of a cash-carrier apparatus, a trackway for a cash-box, a propulsion-cord running longitudinally along the track way, a guide-wheel for the cord arranged with a peripheral portion thereof in proximity to the trackway and to guide the cord from its line proximate to the trackway into a course transversely offset from the line of the trackway, for the purpose set forth.

23. In the terminal portion of a cash-carrier apparatus, a tubular trackway for a cash-box having a longitudinal slotway, and endwise open and having an aperture through its side, a propulsion-cord running longitudinally within the trackway, a guide-wheel for the cord arranged with a peripheral portion thereof in proximity to the sidewise trackWay-aperture and operable to guide the cord from the track- Way-line into a course laterally offset from the trackWay-line.

24. In the terminal portion of a cash-carrier apparatus, a trackWay for a cash-box, a propulsion-cord running longitudinally along the trackway, a guide-Wheel for the cord mounted for rotation on an axis oblique to the trackwayline and arranged With a peripheral portion thereof in proximity to the trackway, and to guide the cord from its line proximate to the trackway into a course transversely offset from the trackway-line.

25. In a terminal portion of a cash-carrier apparatus, in combination, end portions of an onleading and a return trackWay, a propulsion-cord having oncoming and return courses thereof constrained for movement along said trackways, guide-wheels for the said courses of the cord, arranged with peripheral portions thereof in proximity to the trackway, and operable to guide the cord from, and into, lines proximate to the trackway in courses transversely offset from the trackWay-line, and a Wheel around Which the bight of the cord has a running engagement.

26. In a terminal portion of a cash-carrier apparatus, in combination, open end portions of an onleading and a return tubular and longitudinally-slotted trackWay having openings through their sides, back from the tube ends,

from and into Which the propulsion-cord may emerge and enter, the propulsion-cord having oncoming and return courses thereof constrained for movement along said trackways, guide-Wheels for the said courses of the cord, arranged with peripheral portions thereof in proximity to the trackway, and operable to guide the cord respectively from, and into, lines proximate to the trackWay in courses transversely offset from the trackWay-line, and a wheel around Which the bight of the cord has a running engagement.

27. In a terminal portion of a cash-carrier apparatus, in combination, end portions of an onleading and a return trackWay, a propulsion-cord having oncoming and return courses thereof constrained for movement along said trackways, guide-Wheels for the said courses of the cord, mounted for rotation on axes oblique to the trackWay-lines, arranged With peripheral portions thereof in proximity to the trackway, and operable-toguide the cord from, and into, lines proximate to the track- Way in courses transversely offset from the trackway-line, and a Wheel around Which the bight of thecord has a running engagement.

Signed by us at Springfield, Massachusetts, in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JAMES H. D. CHAMBERLAIN. DAVID E. CHISM.

Witnesses:

WM. S. BELLOWS, A. V. LEAHY. 

